Organziation

I can't figure out how I want to make rom downloads available. All of the games uploaded are there, but you want to keep the feedback from the site, etc. It will come to me even if, God forbid, I actually have to develop something.

I killed and moved some forums around. At least this is something I can cross off my list.

I think there is a much better link between phpBB and Joomla at the moment, which I have to implement. I hope it will make the cross login issues obsolete. Finding a balance between documentation on Joomla and phpBB will take a little time though I think that Joomla is very critical to getting back to being some sort of information site.

On a personal note, I'm trying to strike a balance between developing optimization and life. In other words, spending the most amount of time getting stuff done here so that I do other necessary things. Once I can start recognizing when I'm going nowhere at a particular moment, this is probably my indicator.

Cookie Cutter

A guy made mention of the fact that my site was "cookie-cutter message boards plopped onto a site" He's right to a certain extent...web development has never been a strong point of mine. However, before I switched to basically just hosting a message board, it was simply an information site.

http://knobbe.tecmosuperbowl.org/

Eventually I found that just my information wasn't enough and inspired by Puretecmo's layout, the site grew from there. The only problem is that the amount of information has grown so immense that it seems like going back to something of a simple information list is what has become necessary. The funny thing is that it's so remarkably easy yet so far out of my grasp.

So, I've been making Tecmo videos on the side and thought that at the end I could do something a little different that the "done by" in white letters. I have this video of my nephew that I've been holding onto for years, waiting for Nebraska to matter again. A couple of people have stumbled onto it and it's basically a 2 year old throwing a talking toy down on the ground and dancing to it.

The funny part about this was that he was doing this for a good 5 minutes straight before a video camera was brought out. By the end, the little guy was getting tired. The brilliant part though, is the end. He just sort of decides he's finished, and yells "ta-da!" That's sort of how I feel when I make a video....TADA! Then off to something else....

TecmoWorld Post

You know what I hate? Censorship.

Apparently the admins at TecmoWorld, because who knows out of all those guys who could be so incredible thin skinned and oversensitive, have thought it a good idea to flex nuts on me.

Thus, I had to compose an incredibly long and rambling mess that most will not bother to finish or even read. This doesn't matter to me, as it's only meant for whichever of the countless TecmoWorld admins have an axe to grind with me.

This is my copy, as of course it will be delelted.

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Considering that every other thing on this board of mine is deleted or modified, I figured I post in ironically the safest place I can think of, TSBGod's section. Love him or hate him, he basically wants to talk everything out. TDO started this board because he didn't like how he perceived vets to give him a hard time back in the day. "Don't like it? Start your own board" and he has. He found some others who felt the same and started some leagues. He was dedicated and did very well. At first there were Puretecmo or Tecmoworld people, much like before that there were OTFL or Puretecmo people. Over time TDO stayed dedicated while Zach too involved with other stuff to focus on Puretecmo. At one point TDO offered to purchase Puretecmo from Zach, which he declined. He did allow me to run it, which I did so fairly so-so as obviously I didn't have the dedication needed for the site, only the technological savvy to keep it existing and the aptitude to "run it right." Fast forward to today. I finally have the time run things. What do I find? A TDO who thinks it is his right to pull off as many people as he can off of my board or even puretecmo. You know what? That is his right. He has a board that will let anyone with who wants to run a league run their league. Everyone is happy. That happiness comes at a price though. Anyone who is in the way of this utopia, this board whose purpose was to at first offer an alternative to and then crush puretecmo.com, is the enemy. I had a post deleted in the off-topic section about Knobbe.org being down. There are 40 posts about pictures of cats, but that one had to go. A simple "I didn't want people to think your site was still down" would have worked. I was told that TecmoWorld isn't run by one guy, though the other two guys who could delete it didn't even know about it and TDO just says "ah shucks". Dude, you already did it! TecmoWorld is the best online tecmo site! You already won! Yet, it's not good enough. So, I did what any guy on here who has been modded would do: I completely over reacted. TDO has 3 links on knobbe.org and puretecmo.com plugging his website while DELETING my signature in my absence? Well, King John....perhaps making fun of your site whoring would be in line, no? Obviously this didn't go over too well as that itself was modded. Thank you for being so thin skinned that you can't take the hypocrisy shot to the noggin. Nobody really cared nor said anything about my signature....except you. People would have probably thought me a dick for doing so....until now. I honestly thought about closing down Puretecmo. When I was fixing my site because my wiki had killed it, I sort of though, what's the point. Obviously I see the point. There will always be a site that is formed that is opposite of the mainstream. If I closed down Puretecmo, it would be only a matter of time before disgruntled board members would go off and form their own stuff or ask me to do so on knobbe.org. My deal/point - If you run a board that directly benefits by driving traffic to your board, please do not say anything about me on my board in my absence. It really rubs me the wrong way. - If you're going to recruit off my board(s), fine. If you're going to do so while censoring me in anyway, which questions my methodology while benefiting from it's rewards, I'm not going to sit around and ask for seconds. You should probably just sit back, let your commishes do the recruiting, enjoy the hits you aren't paying for, and keep a hold as the top tecmo league site. The poll is there to satisfy TSBGod's criteria that most stuff on here has a resolution. Personally, I could care if it was an anonymous "fuck off".

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Did you read all that drivel?

I've been right before and lost.

I've been wrong before and won.

To borrow from the great maddox.."Am I right or what?"

Google Analytics

I inserted google analytics into my site a couple of years ago and noticed that my traffic had gone down in leaps and bounds over the last couple of weeks. Turns out that when I updated the message board software I ended up blowing away the code and thus, no more hits.

I'm toying with the idea of making the traffic public...I haven't figured out the pros/cons just yet.